YouTube Livestream for Small Channels Goes Official, Here’s a Guide To Your First YouTube Live

Giving rest to the alleged reports, YouTube has officially confirmed its live streaming service – YouTube Live for small channels. The Google-owned video streaming giant has updated its support page, wherein it has released the guidelines for channels that can use YouTube Live. Any channel having a subscriber base of at least 1,000 can feature live streaming from smartphones or desktop.

Earlier, YouTubers with 10k subscriber base could use the live streaming. In the latest update, YouTube has substantially brought down the subscriber requirement to 1k, which means even small channels can Livestream their videos. YouTube has also initiated e-mails to channels owners wit 1k or more subscribers to inform them about the latest feature added to the list of function on their channel dashboard.

Notably, YouTube earlier allowed all the channels to do Livestream videos from their desktops, but it kept the mobile live streaming limited to the channels with 10k or more subscribers. The company has now updated its official web page to reflect the new changes.

For the YouTubers with a subscriber base of 1k or more, here are the pre-requisites for doing a Livestream video on mobile: